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All Art Is Propaganda |  | Authors: George Orwell, Keith Gessen
Creator: George Packer
Publisher: Mariner Books
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Pages: 416
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Dimensions (in): 8 x 5.2 x 1.1
ISBN: 0156033070
Dewey Decimal Number: 808
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ASIN: 0156033070
Publication Date: October 14, 2009
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As a critic, George Orwell cast a wide net. Equally at home discussing Charles Dickens and Charlie Chaplin, he moved back and forth across the porous borders between essay and journalism, high art and low. A frequent commentator on literature, language, film, and drama throughout his career, Orwell turned increasingly to the critical essay in the 1940s, when his most important experiences were behind him and some of his most incisive writing lay ahead. All Art Is Propaganda follows Orwell as he demonstrates in piece after piece how intent analysis of a work or body of work gives rise to trenchant aesthetic and philosophical commentary. With masterpieces such as "Politics and the English Language" and "Rudyard Kipling" and gems such as "Good Bad Books," here is an unrivaled education in, as George Packer puts it, "how to be interesting, line after line."
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 Film Feature May 31, 2010
C. wood (Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I read only one writing in this collection for the rather pompous reason that there was a sole film review that I had never read anywhere else and I wanted my Orwell wanderings to be complete.
The Great Dictator was the film that enraged Hitler. The right wing has always spewed venom on Charles Chaplin...perhaps it was because he was a leftist Hitler look alike who had a great media influence in his day. Orwell gave this film a great review except for some technical shortcomings. Orwell wanted the English government to subsidize the film's distribution during the War which would have been cost effective and appropriate...
"The government should subsidize the Great Dictator heavily and try to get copies into Germany."
Fat chance.
On Chaplin, the twentieth century everyman, Orwell wrote...
"What is Chaplin's particular gift? If it is his power to stand for a sort of concentrated essence of the common man, for the ineradicable belief in decency that exists in the hearts of ordinary people, at any rate in the West." p146.
These selections are worth the time to read, as is nearly everything Orwell wrote. The reader is warned, however,that many Orwell collections are overlapping or fragmentary. Look carefully at the table of contents of Orwell collections to save money before buying and look at my numerous Orwell reviews for guidance. Regards.
 Superb collections of thoughts July 5, 2009
Integrity Reviews (USA)
8 out of 10 found this review helpful
Offering a wide range of Orwell's essays, which were mostly written late in his remarkable life, this collection will stimulate your thinking about entertainment, writing, politics, and other topics. Orwell writes to make one think. Reading these essays is like having a provocative conversation with one of the most interesting and broad-spectrum minds of the first half of the 20th century. Definitely recommended.
Provides Orwell's reflections on a range of critical topics from literature to art November 8, 2008
Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA)
9 out of 12 found this review helpful
George Orwell was a fine essayist and successful critic, discussing art and literature with equal ability and ALL ART IS PROPAGANDA: CRITICAL ESSAYS is a key recommendation for all kinds of libraries, from college-level collections strong in literature and social observation to collection also strong in art criticism. It's the latter that should especially consider ALL ART IS PROPAGANDA: it provides Orwell's reflections on a range of critical topics from literature to art. Very highly recommended.
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